Nếu bạn bị chặn facebook.com

Lưu ý: phương pháp sau đây chỉ làm việc với 1 số tường lửa nhất định.

Nếu ISP của bạn chặn truy cập vào trang facebook.com, hãy thử tải file bat này về và chạy với quyển quản trị. Bấm chuột phải vào nó và chọn Run As Administrator. Restart lại máy và thử lại.

Hoặc bạn có thể thay đổi DNS server cho kết nối của mình để tránh tường lửa loại này. Cách làm như sau:

1. Windows XP: vào Start > Control Panel > Network Connections.
   Windows Vista hoặc 7: Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Connections.
2. Chọn kết nối của bạn (thường là Local Area Connection). Hộp thoại tương tự như sau hiện lên.
   
3. Chọn Properties rồi chọn Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) hoặc Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IP) rồi bấm Properties.
4. Trong hộp thoại mới click vào Use the following DNS server addresses rồi gõ vào địa chỉ các DNS công cộng như OpenDNS (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220).
   
5. Bấm OK rồi thử truy cập vào facebook.com.
6. Nếu thay đổi trên làm bạn không thể truy cập vào internet, hãy lặp lại các bước 1, 2, 3 và tick vào Obtain DNS server adress automatically ở bước 4.

Bế Quan Luyện Công

Hì, mình bế quan luyện công mấy bữa nay. Các bạn chờ nhé

Transformers II: Revenge of the Fallen Fun Facts

Transformers II is gonna hit cinemas everywhere by tomorrow and hit the world with its marvelous scope of a man-made visual work. Simply masterpiece. I just can’t believe that today’s technology can carry out a movie like this — given the Fun Facts (indeed Breathtaking Facts to me) that Michael Bay wrote on his blog:

Robots

• 14 robots last time, 46 robots this time (ILM only)
• If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
• Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
• Devastator’s hand is traveling 390 miles per hour when he punches the pyramid.
• The pyramid destruction simulation was 8 times bigger than the old rigid simulation all-time record holder at ILM.
• All robot parts laid out end to end would stretch from one side of California to the other, about 180 miles
• Devastator’s parts stacked tip to tip would be as tall as 58 empire state buildings.
• If all the texture maps on the show were printed on 1 square yard sheets, they would cover 13 football fields.

Disk space

• TF1 took 20 Terabytes of disk space. Trans2 took 145 Terabytes. Seven times bigger!
• 145 terabytes would fill 35,000 DVDs. Stacked one on top of the other without storage cases, they would be 145 feet tall.

Rendering times

• If you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had to start the renders 16,000 years ago (when cave paintings like the Hall of Bulls were being made) to finish for this year’s premiere!
• A single imax shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop.
• IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

Imax

• Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
• Imax frames take about 6 times longer than anamorphic to render.
• IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

ILM screen time

ILM Screen Time is about 51 minutes.

Devastator

• Devastator is as tall as a 10 story building.
• Devastator has more than 10 times the number of individual parts found in an average car.
• Laid out end to end, Devastator’s parts would be almost 14 miles long.

Devastator totals

• Number of geom pieces: 52632
• The total number of polygons: 11,716,127
• The total length of all pieces: 73090 feet
• The total length of all pieces: 13.84 miles

If your Firefox cannot save cookies

For the last several days I got stuck in an annoying situation that I have to re-enter my account info (username and password) for every single website I use (about 10 I guess). For some reasons it seems that my newly-upgraded Firefox 3.5 Preview would not save any cookies at all.

So I did a little research the reason turned out to be some corrupted file called cookies.sqlite. All you have to do is to seek and destroy it. That’s all! (And by saying “destroy” I didn’t mean that you have to actually chop its head down or something, just delete it — even to the recycle bin is OK.) The file can often be found at your %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and in a folder named whatever.default.

Hope this is helpful if you have the same bug with Firefox.

The Breathtaking Google Wave

I just can’t breathe during one and a half hour watching this coverage of Google Wave keynote address.

Image by niallkennedy via Flickr.

After watching Microsoft’s Glimpse into the future and this video, I pretty much believe that most of the triumphs in human’s history come not from these political systems or those (inter)national leaders — but from all the people with great mind of knowledge and keen sense of innovation.

It’s the technology from those people that changes the world.

Trang funphotobox.com vui ghê

Còn gì vui hơn ghép ảnh của bạn vô mọi thứ từ linh tinh tới minh tinh? Hãy thử trang funphotobox.com và photofunia.com xem. Rất thú vị! (Biết qua Minh Hai.)

Thiết kế lại tờ dollar

Vâng đang có một chiến dịch thiết kế mới tờ đô đó các bạn. Nếu bạn là designer và muốn để lại cái gì đó cho đời sau (thực sự là như vậy!), hãy thử thiết kế vài mẫu dollar mới và biết đâu lại được chọn.

Mẫu này trông thật hiện đại, và vẫn giữ được màu xanh đặc trưng của tờ đô:

© Copyright 2009 The ‘Author’. All rights reserved. These designs are NOT legal tender. Visit: http://thinkcreateblog.wordpress.com for more info. Source: http://richardsmith.posterous.com/

Ít bữa tôi sẽ gởi mẫu của tôi lên cho bạn coi.

Songbird is super cool!

Yes it is. Get it here to have this cool thing like that in my screenshots.

Manage your desktop icons with Fences

Today I want to introduce you to Fences, a desktop icon management tool that I just fall in love.

If your have read my last post, you’d notice that the icons on my desktop are a bit — OK, indeed — frustrating. Throwing things all around across my (computer) desktop has been my bad and favorite habit. Though I have tried to “organize” them (yes I do! Look closer at those screen shots and you can see there are this area for folders and that for PDFs), I have to admit it’s not easy to skim the desktop and pick the right thing at first try.

That’s why when I heard Veronica Belmont of Techzilla talk of Fences this morning, I knew the utility is just right for me.

These are advertising words from its producer, Stardock, which it is surprisingly quite right:

Fences is a program that helps you organize your desktop, and can hide your icons when they’re not in use. It’s FREE for personal use, so try it out today, and change how you use your desktop forever!

Thank God, unlike other Stardock’s fancy and useless applications, Fences is just simple, helpful and easy to go with. These are what I got 10 minutes after playing with Fences. (Yes, 10 minutes. It’s really easy to start using and loving this tool.)

My desktop today